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; - -e) ~1. ~ ~~~ c_- EAST INDIA HOUSE, Dcc. *O, let*. ~:~ rilflt COURT of DIIIEC TORS of the UNIT ED IL COMPANY of 11fERCHANTS of ENGLAND TRADING to the EAST 4NINES, do hereby give Notice, That the Court will be ready to receive Proposals, in writing, on or before Wednesday, the - 17th January next, from the Owner or Owners of good, sound, and substantial Copper-hottomed SHIPS o the burthen of 700 tons and upwards, registered mea surement; specifying the rate of Freight at which he or they may he willing to let such Ships for One Voyage to and from China. The Tenders, with the words " Ship Tcnitet•" on the eover, to be severally sealed up, and left with the Secretary, at this House, at or before Twelve o'Clock at noon, on the said Wed:. 1 " 11 Y. the 17th January next, beyond which hour the Court will not receive any Tender. JOSEPH DART; Smeary. The Particulars of the Terme and 'Conditions upon which the Ships will be employed may be had upon application at the Of fice of the Clerk to the Committee of Shipping, on or after Friday, the 22t1 •BRIMH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL, CLOSE of the EXHIBITION of HIS MAJESTY'S PRI- VATE COLLECTION of PICTURES. THE GALLERY, with the COLLECTION,of PICTURES froM CARLTON PALACE. which His Itlajesty has teen graciously pleased to allow the Directors to ex will he CLOSED on SATURDAY NEXT, the SOth iust. Admittance (from Ten till Dusk), lc—Catalogue, WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. AN ELEGANT CHRISTMAS PRESENT. In one neat pocket vohune, with a Frontispiece and Vignette, Engraved by James Mitchell, from Drawings by J. M. Wright, As. 6d. boards, PECIMENS of SA.CRFJ and -SERIOUS "-- 1 POETRY, from Chaucer to the. present Day ; including Grahatne's Sabbath and other Poems, and Blair's Grave. With Biographical Notices and Critical Remarks. By JOHN 'JOHNSTONE , Printed, for • OliVer and Boyd, Edinburgh ; anti Geo. B. Whit . taker, Itondon. THE. QUARTERLY REVIEW,..No. LXIX. will be published on the 29th instant. Printed fur John Murray, Albemarle-street, This day was published, in Bvo, with. a Map. T HE PRESENT STATE OF COLOMBIA. By an OFFICER, Late in the Colombian Service. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle.street. • Just published, with a Map, Syn., 12s. NA R ATIVE OF THE BURMESE WAR. By MAJOR SNODGRASS, jlilitary secretary to the Commander of the Expedition, ami Assistant Political Agent in Ava. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. On Saturday next, 23d December, will be published, . price ss. 6d. in extra boards, AVIEW of the WORLD, Prom the Creation to the wenn; Time, with an ART of MEMORY, on an entirely new System, by which the Learner, is enabled to fix the Dates In the Mind brineaus of Words, and to overcome the dif. !lenity of committing tignrekto Memory. Being a Foundation for die Study of. History, Chrnnology,.and Geography. With An APPENDIX, containing numerous examples of , the canner ill whirl* Of Art of Memory will greatly facilitate the study of AST4OI4O3IY, and fix indelibly on the mind, LONGITtI Dgs and I.4TITUUKS, Wpoks, Measures, Distances, Specific Gravi till) Financial Statements, Esc. Ry the Author of the French Genders,' Taught in Six Fables, the NINTH Edition of which is now on Sale. London : Printed for W. R. Goom.neg, 80, Cornhill. ANY Friends of Mr.-VAItOR, late Pro prietor of -the , SUN, Newspaper ? who was deprived of that and other property by the misconduct of a Partner, lately 440 Wi1, propose to publish a VOLUME of his POEMS, by s ubscription, and therefore solicit the patronage of his Friends and the Public. • , ; The Work will consist of Selections from his former Volumes "(I many of his later Productions, comprising Sonnets, Odes, and , Epilogues, occasional Miscellaneous Effusions, f'sles t attd an entire New Version of the Odes of Anacreon. I.4tract of a Letter from Lord Byron to the Author. " Dee Sir—l have to thank you fin. a volume in the good old "Os of nu`r - elders and our betters, which I am very glad to wr "fit yet extinct." me•ritcs OF THE Vol WILL BK ONE OCINIA• Substriptious will be. received . by Mr. Murray, Albemarle- S treet; Payatt,and Fors, Pail-mall; Mr.. W. Nicol ) hussell-uoutt, Cleveland-rOw ; Messrs. Longman and Co. Pater -4260pr-row ; Mr. J. Richardson, Royal Exchange ; and by Mr. wound}, Aigel-eourt, Skinner-street., CI -TEAT) AVNTER CLOTIIING for CHA- N.' RITIES.Stout• Knit Shetland Stockings of all sixes, 64 .3 , Ai.41311 6d: per dozen ; Lambs' Wool and Worsted, to ; 4.1: ;,..Thie,lt White and Spotted Knit Jersey Underwaist -44,43 265., ; Worsted ditto, 204., 235. ; Flannel ditto !hit` Drewetir,i :34* ; Great Coati, I Os. 6d., I 2i. and 13 *- Dd. each Grey: Cloaks, 4s. 6d. to 9*. ; Flannel and Linsey .„ " c 'OrkeY :Petticoats, 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d. ; strong Linen and Calico Skirts and Chemises, 41., 4s. 6d., ss. ; Blankets, bs., 04 .3 163 3d., ris. 9d. per pair; Bed Hugs, 2s. 2il. to 43i, ;. Welch E lssuol. 11 0., 941., 1041., I Id. and Is. per yard ; Sheet ing*, I id, ; Calico. 6d., Id., 6d, ; Linen, I 1 d., I I ; Nui print, 7 0 -., 831.' and 9d.; Yarn GloVes and Mittens, Welch Wigs,Kilrnarinkk Capi, Cravats, 83c, acc. JOHN STEAIt and. CO. respectfully inform the Nobility and ( lentryi that the above form part of a very large Stock of (loads, 'llitable for. Charitahh. Donations, o list of which, priced for the Kemal season, may be lied on application at their Hosiery td °Witting Warehouse, 84.,.0x fortl-strfet, nearly opposite the 1- 4thaon.—*Wash Leather Waistcoats, Drawers, and R.ooki; 114 Lattice anti Otittlemen, of peculiar soft rist and .an extensive general assortment of Hosiery, Gloves, , 4 ianahle Cravaiai. Heasly-rnade Linen, tine Welch and Patent 'llintels,,,D reu i ng Gown*, &c. &e. at unusually low prices. Ord er , from , t h e c oua try, with a Irilittanet or reference, re f4l4ll4' forwardisl.—G en tlemen's Cloth Opera Cloaks, Three " tlineas each . PULMoNEs vuLPIUM, or, PREPARED .;„ - FOXES' LUNGS, f or Coughs,. Colds, and Asthmas , ',ll, er - recant or of long s t a ndi n g. T his valu*) k medicine re lulteli no enumeration of it. virtues, as a single trial will prove its at e, r. P,nriared and sold in P o t s , I s . 1.!,,1. each, by Thos. Rose, * 9 , -0 %11-street, Vioihoryouitiare ; and sold by Mr. C. A. Hop kins, No, 10, thaveriott-row, Newingtou Botts; Mr. J. W. tirlitig, 86 ,11igb-sheet, Whiterlsapel ; Mr. Yhtt., 109, Blackman - lteeet; Sofough • Mr. Stoilma n , 3 arid 4, K eene ' s - row , W A I- *forth ; Mr. T . Brown, 'Union-Owe, Camberw e ll ; Messrs. Ancell, 196, Oxford-street ; Mr. 1 . 0 w411, *O2, Fleet.atreet ; Mr. Bask)* 87, Red , Lion -street, Holborn. Wholesale Agent, Aims. Barclay and Son, Fleet-market. SORE THROATS, HOARSENESS, &c. ----- 11 lITL ER'S ACIDULATED -.CAYENNE LOZENGES, are particularly rem:lntended for habitual it , l'e Throats, relaxation of the Uvula, enlargement of the Ton 'lS and that description of hoarseness which arises from relaxa tion of the membranes of the Throat, and the parts contiguous. Tlie Cayenne Lozenge has been found of great utility to such perilous as are frequently in the habit of speaking in public; they Nay, therefore, advantageously be used in the Senate, at the Bar, '44 in the Pulpit, and the highest testimony in the Musical Werld has been inivinced in'thetr favour, especially in those cases It 'hirts ' fru*i the constant use of the vOicti, or the influence of a '`timid atmosphere, the membranes have become relaxed, and di 44oislustl in their tone. These Lozenges are also recommended as a stimulus 'luring I, , tist , Sporn ; .they- are. I.lfOeshing, and prevent . Sore Throats, uoarsestess, &v. to those who are unaccustomed to exposure in the tintin g , before the dew has passed off, and in moist and foggy Sold in Boxes, at 2s. anti 4s. 6d. by Messrs. Butlers, Cheruh'ts, 41 04paitle, corner of St. Paul's ; 73, PrinCee-street, Edinburgh t 4 40.44, Sackville-street, Dublin; Savory & Ce. 136, New Bend 4it'SWillittort, BS, lli gli.:st r ee t , Borough ; and the principal M -tlie * t i :Venders in the United Kingdom ; where may be had, ~ ANTACID LOZENGES of QUININE, for re ii-7.!'4, - tone .Diatrdence, Indigestion,. Gouty Affections, 44 win k tone to The :Stomach. In Boxes at 2e. and 4s. 6d. • 11 . ----Ask for BUTLIR'S CAYIENNI or QUININE LOIENUIS, .1 C E .0. ~.1 1111 . ;- • No. 10,690. 4. " I PR ICE 7D. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1026. SPLENDID ENTERTAINMENT. We insert with peculiar pleasure the following descrip tion of a splendid entertainment, given at 'Limerick, by Mr. DICKSON, to the inhabitants, of that city. It . dernOn-• strates the beneficial effects . of a resident gentry inter mingling with the community, Who, were they generally to follow the example of Mr. DICKSON would soon cause party animosity to subside, and render Ireland, what is so desirable, a happy and a prosperous. country (From the Limerick Evening Post.) Mr. Samuel Dickson's splendid Soiree, on the night of Toes day list, was attended by all the beauty, fashion, and respectability of our city. The con - 4ny began to assemble abont nine o'clock, and by half-past ten, nokithstanding the tempestuOus'state of the weather, on that evening„ , the elegant mansion of the exhilirating host was crowded. So eager were the votaries of Terpsichore to commence their sprightly, pleasures, that a young lady, equally distinguished for her eisviability and accomplishments, conde scendingly acquiesced w4b their wishes to touch the keys of a grand piano -flute, and instantly several quadrille sets, who were already formed, aiiid awaitin! , the band's arrival, were put in motion on the " light fantastic .toe." In a short time the hand appeared in the temporary orchestra pre pared for them; but the fair performer still continued at the instrument, and seemed to enrapture, not only the dancers, but all present, by her brilliant execution. The emotions excited shoring this set, gave a charm and zest to the fascinations of the evening. Celebrated as our City is for the unrivalled personal charms of its women, as well as for their elegance and high mental attainments, they never shone with snore brilliancy than on Tuesday. Dancing Was continued with unabated vivacity until near two o'clock, when the:sapper rooms were thrown open to nearly 800 ladies and gentlemen, where the style and splendour of the arrangements were only equalled by the immense profusion of every delicacy, that taste could procure, or ,hospitality furnish. Some finely executed songs ensued, and wit and sentiment gave life and spirit to the hour. After supper, dancing was resumed, and continued to an advanced hour next morning, when every soul quitted the fee . tire scene, delighted with the various entertainments of the night. .We have heard, and for the cheerfulness and gaiety of our city, we hope we have been correctly informed, that the 'entertainment, of which we have been giving a brief account, is but the first of u series, which are to succeed during the winter— ' a number of families, of the first respectability, having taken the impulse so' elegantly given by Mr. Dickson. In concluding this article, we may venture to say, that, whether we contemplate Mr. Dickson as a gentleman, (and a bachelor toe), possessing an abundant fortune, which he might, were lie so disposed, dissipate elsewhere instead of spending it usefully, and elegantly in his tur five city; or, as a member of the community, employing his time and applying his purse to ameliorate the condition of the humble orders of society, he is, beyond all doubt, a most promi nent and valuable citizen of Limerick. !he kind, The rule of the court was, to ascertain the number of vacancitis for military offices every year, and to fill them up. He knew o the regulation by which a third attain was appointed to ever? King's Regiment in India, and be approved of it ; but then th 4 King's regiments bad no medical staff, which the Com pany hail.. Mr. !Roam thought it would be wise tO follow the example of the Kirtg's regiments with respect to the *ogler of medical of ficers to each. Noy economy in this relpeet would be wholly misplactql. He knew of one case in which he was the only me dical officer attending a hotly of 8,000 Mr. NiTtoaaat uid, the deficiency of militaVy officers slid not arise frOm the want of officers in India, bur had been caused by. the number taken from each corps, to fill up stiff appointmensa,— But to prevent inconvenience from this rause, a regulation had been made, by which only a certain number could be taken from each caps, to be'plared on the stall: Col.ll3att.av bore testimony to the real with which the Hon. Propritor (Mr. Hume) had discharged his duties as a medical man, addition to several others which at that time devolved on him, while doing the medical duty of five corps. • Pr. fitt.ctuttsT adverted to the medical schtool for the instinc thin ()illative aasistants, established by Lord koshirst, and asked wh!telr it was still kept up or knocked on the head ? The'CHAIRMAN could assure the hounnrable proprietor, that . it t been knocked on the head, but was going on, and likely •e of great service in India. MUTINY AT BARIiAeXPORS. had Tic to pro, Huai r now roseto submit a , motion on a subject arising rlthe proceeding of the last two days. It had been stated, tpe of the reasons .assigeed for the omission of the name.of 4 Paget from the vote of tbanks, was his conduct with respect, tjaffairat Barrackpore. He (Mr. Hume) would not say who 4 fault; but he was an=ions to have snob information as show where the blame, if ant, should be attached. The inember then moved the following : iit there be laid before this Court, a copy of the proceedings committee, appointed in Calcutta, to inquire cud report on etiny of the native troops at Barrack pore, in November, 1824. opy of the General Orders of the Bengal Cloverinitent of the November, (No. SB5 of 1824), respecting the mutiny of th Regiment of Native lafantrY ttt Barraekpore. return of the number of Mnfineers that were banged, and (umber whose sentences were commuted to labour on the A kipy of any dispatch, containing the orders of the Court of Diregors to the Bengal Government, respecting the 'mutiny at llarrilckpore, and the mutineers who had been placed on the roads to Latour, and respecting the Native Commissioned Officers of the 47th ;Regiment, who had been dismissed by orders of Government of th* 4th of November, 1824. Si c C. Rotuma supported the motion, and contended at some length that it would be gross injustice to the native troops, and even Ito the Government of India, and,the Commander-in-Chief, to suffer the affair to pas. over without inquiry. 'the conduct towaida the unfortunate troops was most unjustifiable. Of this he wtuld give one instance. When the first discharge was made, and the unfortunate native troops were flying. in all directions, they '!,vere pursued and butchered in cold blood. One poor na tive, not belonging to the troops, alarmed at the slaughter of his countrymen, tied from the spot, and took shelter in a tree. He was seen by two of our soldiers, who both aimed their muskets at Min.! Au officer, who witnessed the scene, called out to the men not in tire, but before his words could be heard, one of the mus ket. iwent off, and the native fell from the tree wounded. , When the tioldiers came up, he called out in a supplicating tone, and said in the Hindostanee, "I am not a seepoy, I am gardener to the treat man" (the Governor-General), and that turned out to he the fact. The Hon. Baronet then went on to say, that if he were spared, he would newer desist, year after year, and month sfte9 month, from pressing the necessity of inquiry, until the whole of this horrible affair was fully investigated. r. NV' , I:pv.o The CH.iirtitAw objected 1,1~1601110u. 4/n*4ol4lld. be 4movived, beert already discussed and ittreided, and the *MUM' the affair was buried in oblivion the better for the int/reit of the Corppany. Captain Maxylat.n supported the motion. Colonel flpat.t.tz contended, that the inquiry and the courts marilal which had already taken place, were quite .ti iciest to ansi•er all the purposes of justice. Dr. Gtt.ctia.isTsupPoried the motion. Mr. TaA NT 'apposed it. Nil.. }lust): replied; after which the Court divided, when there appeared roc the Resolution, 6 Against them, 26 I Majority, 20• sl.`aptain Nintristo gnve notice, that M the neat quarterly meeting he would submit a motion for papers, to show the mode in which business was conducted at corn. of the hoards in India. Mr. /lusts gave notice, that at the next Qututerly Court he weidd submit a motion on the subject of the Air at Barrackpore, who (as the Court refused Arial information on the subject) he would feel it necessary u lay before theta all the information re specting it which he had collected front private sources.—The Court then adjourned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. ! (From th(Jiturnal du Debate of Monday.) PARIS, DEC. 17.--We return to the affairs of Portugal-.-ti the English' policy. , Whence, is derived to Plgland that prosperity, that sovereign power, which it proclaims? Ito owes them to its respect for the works of time and the rights of liberty. It owes them tO its genius, to its laws, and to France—to France, such as it has been made by a system as much without greatness as without nationality—to France, which its guides efface, in order to escape the shocks of. fortune and the efforts of time ; which they lessen, in order to remain great in the public debasement ; which they fear, instead of understanding, respecting., and tendering re spectable and beneficial to all States, which they exhaust in build ing monasteries and overturning schools, Which they torment at pleasure, both in its liking and its institutions, while it requires only to live at peace under the shade of the laws ; where, in short, they are only occupied in proscribing conscience as a fetter, thought as a danger, talent as a competition, history as a prow,- tation, speaking as hostility, where they would wish .to create no. thing but silence—the only praise of which they are ambitious. 16.1w:in beats- mmirnfully at the sight of the - warlike pro ceedings which agitate the banks of the Thames—of th e t roo p s on their march—of,thine ensigns spread—of that public burst— of those acclamations which come from Westminster, the ancient temple of i'oglish Aristocracy, to go end echo in. the barrack,,its, the port, in the city. Great Britain may he unanimous in ap-, plaudiog these preparations which are not hostile to her; this noise of arms, which will not be turned against her, interests net her glory. Iler soldiers may quit with enthuaiasto the shore* of their country, for they know whither they are led, and what they are about to do; they I:now they are about to .extend the power of their country by propagating its laws ; they knuw.tbey are about to fight for a cause, which is that of the blood- flowing in their veins—of the air they breathe—of the earth which has fed them ; they know they are about to render to a people, sleep ing for three hundred years in the bonds of a mortal Government, the benefits of the happy alliance of the ancient and the new order of things, Monarchy tempered by public power—Aristo craoy strong and tree—the people ennobled by altering in power. These are the things which speak to the soul, .which everybody hears in Great •Britain, for which an army may be ardent; as great bodies are ardent for religion, libetty, glory, country. During the reviews and embarkation, of London, what are our soldiers doing nu theatre taf their victories? Whet are they doing? They support order-in Barcelona during the execution of that man, who was convicted by an assessor, of having defended himself iu 1823, aga i ns t the Royeliet Volunteers who wanted to assassi nate him. They maintain order throughout the Peninsula in 1826—during the murder at Valencia, of that schoolmaster, who was gravely suspected of heterodoxy —as they maintained order in 1925, when an Ultra-Royalist Genet al, who had too vigor ously fought for the absolute King, was put to death ; and a General, tint little Royalist, but who had fought like a furious lion for Spain and Don Ferdinand; they maintain order, while the police in- vents new categories of prescriptions, inclining with the poignardi of the multitude the enlightened and rich classes; while near Cadiz, sixty citizens are condemned to death, guilty of a crime six years old, conaecrated by the support of Europe, before which august heads bent and proffered their oaths, and, in fact, the faith of capitulations, placed under the guarantee of French honour, covered with inviolable amnesty. This is the task which the Grenadiers of Trocadero have performed, for the last three year*, as the reward of their victories. Anti now, that to this dreadful peace, to this vest silence, which was only disturbed by the hymns of the populace drawn by degrees from its lethargy, to dance around the fatal hurdle, succeed the clangour of arms, now that the cannon growls around. them, to what senti ments do they dare to yield. If the war, spreading its furies, should reach them, what would lie their course?-.-who their enemies, their allies? What their aims, their colours? They knew nothing s ex“ l it that, 14itlatil to tht‘k.lvai., , *•re their eiplltte, the white sag. shall call them, • there they would go end die. They would to-day assist those whom they timsbt ptter day ; whom their victory has destroyed, whom, however, their presence protects; whose French feelings, generous ideas, instruc tion, and rank they love. Or they would mire more cover with th e i r b a ttalions thine, monks who murder, that populace which robs, that carnarilla which only knows how to deceive and hate its benefactors. They would fight new battles to prevent the effects of those temperate institutions which our invasion had promised— to maintain the proscription on the head of that rare, but enlight ened people, of those secular priests, the best ornament of the Spanish Clergy—of these titles of Castile, noble in blood and heart, of that humiliated or fugitive greatness. They would agaiu see wheeling about in their lines, that Trappiste, the Drom-major, on horseback, as one of the promoters of the war calla him, seats himself at the table of our Generals ; the bandit of Sierra loaded with murders, rises superior to the will of our Princes, those re gencies which we have installed at theitrice of our blood, that Chief of Cstpuchina who need only raise his finger to decide on the safety or the murder of Generals covered by our treaties? in spite of the eft'nrts of the Ministry to lay asleep the.public foresight, the doubts, the solicitudea of our army are also the doubts and soli, cititdes of all France. This is the alternative given by tatting. We must either preserve the same allies, or change then). To preserve them is to produce the most horrible consequence ; to change them—but for what? To offer on the other side of tire Py r enees the shade of the French Charter, the body which is here trouble some to us, and to remain alone with our tardy code, exposed to enmity and diadaiu between the Liberals, who will hence forth consider it insuffittient, and the Absolutists, who will always consider it tou much. A Court which will call itself .betrayed, a King who will think himself a prisoner ? We know very well that if the Portuguese Royalists, as, some papers call them in France, that is those who wish neither their King, nor his legitimate heirs, nor his acts, had been able, less fintunate than whet was lately the Army of the Faith, to perish, at the first blow, in a rash enterprise. The French Minister was safe.' In that centred all his hopea. Ile would easily have determined the Cebinet of. Madrid to humble itself before irritated England. The Cabinet of St. James's would have been contented with the abasement of the Spanish Monarchy, because it prefers, as a means of authority, diplomacy to war, as well as it knows how to ; prefer war to humiliation; and, satisfied with seeing order reign in the Peninsula—that is to say, absolute power in Spain, liberty in Portugal, we should have hastened, for Woof new minatory's, ' quietly to evacuate the monarchy of Philip , the Fifth, to leave it man by man, so shut Europe might not perceive it, leaving the future (thatie, - the• British Cabinet) .to make what is could pf the order of things established by our arms. But the insortertion is powerful. The English army appears to he almost alone in line, until the higher classes have tune to prepare to organise thetuselvea behind its Hags. The unfortunate lowest) of the allies of our siliel solves all the difficulty of the problem. Roughly taught by expe rience, after being long in vain named by, our loyal intimations, r the Ministry is now desireus of proceeding at once; and for that purpose we see hint declate, in the English Jour ' nal% that it was his firm purpose for this long time Rut this design cannot be accomplished ;in the present circumstances, without saying this to Europe—' W e ' have- prolonged the occupation Ho far molter* Mkt hut little utility in Spain, and no danger to ouraelves. Now that some dangers threaten us, we remove ourselves.' And as so candid an address is. nut dens/ with skilful and experienced Statesmen, this declaration would be- covered with the pretext, that Ferdi nand, not having fillfilled his engagements, bee melted to hove . any right to French protection. But will not the world demand whence it arises that we have awaited all these storms before we could perceive the ingratitude of the Spanish Cabinet, or the misery of its people? Why have We not sooner expressed our ye seutment? Now can the invasion of Portugal be a more deasive ; act than the promises of Prince the Generalissimo despised, his cepi tulations infringed, his glory denied, his advice mistrusted ; terror, t anarchy, put in possession of power; blood shed in torrents; a greatoution effaced from the. rank of civilised_ be lt , w ,,, ' t ili ce b r e . impossible to defend. ourselves from the suspieiim of a putillani. nom desertion. It is unfortunate for to that we are obliged to I draw mush eontequences from the victories of the Dauphin and his virtues; but, in the present eitnetion, taioly to submit to it. France would thus have a chalice fur a time, at least, of preserving its repose, We cannot d eman d all t once t • n a a tiusula ier:l;7lu therertioiitete l‘ apec w i a i ta i s : t o c r i t Y e h i b to n :was h hu P t o e n t : n r c h e a rc r i t t nd n wy y tgrhal:nrrt:o-:natcdit e a s h i t o n en l i y iie r i I evacuate it at the first sight oleo English uniTorin. It worth] br , worthy of the Ministry to heveearried on affairs in such a Waythat we should be obliged to - retire and conceal ourselves behind the EAST INDIA HOUSE. A quarterlysenersi Coin of Proprietors of East India Stock was held yesterday, for the purpose of declaring a dividend for the half•year commencing on the btli of July last, and ending on the sth of January next. The Cnatamart (Sir G. A. Robinson) laid before the Court an account of the expense incurred in supporting the corps of East liiidiu Volunteers during the last year, and also an estimate of the expense for the ensuing year. The expense for the last year was 4,3041. I6s. id. ; and the estimated expense for the en suing year, 3,947/. DIVIDIND. The CEIAIRMAN then stated, that this . Court wai membled to consider of a dividend on the Company's capital stook for the half year comitivciug on , the rill. of July last, and ending on the ttth of .liiinary next. The Court of Dirsotore had come to a resolution, declaring that Ai per cent. should be the dividend for the before-mentioned period ; and the Chairman pro posed that. the Court should coincide with the resolution of the Court of Directors. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. Captain Ai A MELD rose to ask a question relative to the Flom. hay marine service, when The DP.PUTY-CHAIRMAN rose to order. General !Titoßwrox was of opinion, that the proper time for putting questions was before the regular bminest of the day commenced. Dr. GlLcunisT observed, that if questions were put of to the last moment, it was easy for the Directors to defeat the " goes, tionable people" by flowing an adjournment of the Court. THE COUPANY'S SHIPPING. Captain MAXiIICVD then brought forward his motion relative to that part of the Act of the 58th of Geo. - 111., which rendered it imperative on the. Company, in the case of a ship of 1,200 tons burden, 'taken up by the Company for six voyages in the Chins trade, being lost or destroyed by fire, to Cause another to be built of the saws magnitude, whether such a vessel was really wanted or not. The lion. Proprietor concluded by moving three reso lutions; the first inculcating the necessity of economy in the ship ping department of the Company's service; the second, calling on the Directors to apply to Parliament for the repeal or the amend ment of the With of geo. 111., so far as it regarded the hiring of ships of 'l,too tong for six voyages ; and the lid, demanding that the Directors should apply for au Act that would throw open the whole shipping of this country of the burden of 000 tons and up wards to a competition as to the carrying trade between this coun try and China. The Cuatnstax defended the existing system. . . Mr. Huatkwas of opinion that a change in that part of the shipping System alluded to by the Iron. Proprietor, would be advantageous ; hut the present resolutions, in ins mind, embraced too many subjects for the consideration of the Court at one mo ment. tie therefore would advise the Hon. mover to withdraw his propositions, and to bring forward the subject on another day in u snore tangible shape. Mr. TWINING eulogised the system on which the Company's trade with Chins was conducted. Captain 111Axritti.n replied briefly. The resolutions were then put by the Chairman, and negatived without a division. QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICFIU IN INDIA. Mr. Hush rose for the purpose of submitting a motion to which he did not think any objection would be 'offered, The in formation he wished for, was for copies of all virdere issued by the °oven-Or-General or Commander-in-Chief, to the several Presidencies in India, respecting the qualifications necessary for officers acting as interpretets to Courts-martial or to regiments. Also the orders issued by the Court of Directors to the several Presidencies, touching the qualifications of officers for such ap pointments ; also au account of the number of officers examined in each Presidency as to the qualification for the of of inter preter ; the name of each officer so examined, and the date of his • examination ; .alsothe ordera issued In each Presidency, respec ting the qualification of medical officers, as to their knowledge of the Hindostannee language, and the number of examinations of such officers and the date of each. On the question being put, it was carried in the affirmative. Dr. Ott.CrtatsT was anxious to know how many Directors All The Deputy Were present in the Court (of Directors) on the two occasions when that body could not come to an unanimous vote of thanks that the to Lord Amherst. eirmrotAN was not able to answer that question. licient nurnbe Chaim' an could state of any Court WWI, that a sof bar a , __, Oittendtd to constitute a Court, hut the exact num oove that Wag not e n tered on the minutes.—Here the matter dropped. :/I "ICAL AND lIII.ITAXV OFFICER?. h Mr. Mit t w i s h ed to put a q uestion on a subject t o whicit ltd had calkd the at t e nt i on of the Court two years ago , Ife %Is ed to know whether any st e p s h a d b een ta k e n to fill tip the vacatt cies in the numb er o f ar European movers. In this resp ect, he ha tiered, a great deficiency, o f offic ers w as fit, and he bad heard o f corps of 1,000 native soldiers to which no more than three European officers were attached. At present the want was, he understood, severely felt. The want of .a sufficient number of medical officers was also much felt in India, particularly in Western India. The.Cuatamatt said, the. Hon. Gentleman had an advantage over him, iu the many sources of private information which► he pos►essed,-- while he (the Chairman), aim o n ly go by the, oklal communications made to him. lie had 'heard no 'complaints of MR. ELLISTON'S COMMISSION. Tuesday a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Robert William Elliston, the late lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, tohk place in Basinghall-street, for the purpose of electing assignees. A number of creditors attended in order to prove their debts. The biisiness of the Court, however, Was so conducted, that our Reporter - Could catch nothing of what was going ftinverd, although hi listened most at tentively. Indeed, the conduct which it was thought ht ptir: ne cessary by some per s o ns concerne d t o adopt, fot h Pose of preventing those who attended for the press from hearing the particulars, was most disgraceful. It is also necessary to mention, that upon this occasion the papers, upon being handed in, were at once folded anti a whispering took place between those who appeared prove, and the solicitor, : while twenty tongues were going at once in this bear-garden. Even in the Courts . of Request, where the lowest and most exasperated of people are in the habit of getting their claims decided, there is more decency observed than was witnessed in the exhibi tion of this day. We Underatiiid that. Mr. Peto proved to the 'amount 'of 3,701., and that he and Mr. Brookes were , without oppo sition or competition, appointed assignees, BARNARD THIC,PLAYER.—This un fortunate man has at length foundan asylnro, and in ;..stice to the humanity of Certain members of the profession, we ure happy to obserVe that the'poor man, whose decay of mind had rendered him useless to the theatre, and had gradually sunk him to is state of the most ab ject penury, has. been, under the advice of Dr. 'Wain, and a cornniittee of hie brother actors, consigned to a private asylum for lunatics at Roston, where he will have every attention which his unfortunate situation demands. The committee have agreed that he shall have a weekly inspecting visit from each of his old col leagues. The .Seeteiary of the Theatrical Fund, assisted by a committee, has been inablol to accomplish this object. LIGHT HEADING.—Ah, this word " the c a use o f muc h heaviness. A pound of feathers, it must be re. membered, weighs as heavily as a pound of lead. It is a militate to suppose, that the nearer we approach.* vacuum, tht more agree. able is the atmosphere. To be " light," in th e ° ow ° , of most. Pop's, is to be idealess. It is most true , that , the more common the ideas of a composition are, the more numerous / rinciple seen)* WM be the au th , ence by whom it will be understood ; and d t ie'p to guide the advocates of a light" reading and writing . — Writ e that, say they, which shall require the least education and the commonest experience' to understand it, and you will write that which must he popular. Compare the merits of Taeitus and Clarendint, and very few know or care any thi ng about t h e met ter. Discuss Pope mid Dryden* and your audience is a little more enlarged. Talk of Lord Byron, and-your auditors are mul tiplied by a hundred. Criticise the manners of a dinner-table, and the vulgarities of half-bred pretenders+, or low.bred CoCknies, and the very housekeepers end lady's' maids eau relish your dis course. This is the modern. Inaanlog of the term, a light," and the. principle of the management of more than one popular periotli c4—Loistio Magazine. 1 1 4 - 11, ' V '.4 / ski _ ; i l l /50 4 ( ' .!•-' ' , 0 %, . --:' " : ! elitc.1111, ::, . )'.. 11101 W iIV . 0tt.144 4 , ~ .. . - 4:1 - .:. A-0 11ki k'' '` . ~ ..,......_ 1 4 .„ , -.‘ p, i , itltt 1 pyre. Eisl sad jot he obliged la spite of ourselves to take* part lea the matte. ; Unfortunately it no longer depends on the Minister to seettriNus that mournful peace. Fortune has chained us in the Peninsula. We most run from the field of our triumphs. The Cabinet fehich feels that such measures cannot be imposed on our troops, unless to lead them' against. the enemy, thinks to re. move all; contrary ehances, , by autisting all the wiiiiies of .Great Britain. 1 But supposing that our secret influence permitted us to iaek tido refuge, there is great doubt of our security in that su baltern character. Those were combinations calculaWsl far •aeedi tion of a few houri. There is nitie—thera is entire war. Spain has invaded Portugal : it will he invaded. It has cast a rsuln tion on that kingdom. It wished M see fulfilled the promises of the Marquess of Chaves ; It.: will see th ou ofisrinafuwej.Eug- ' lead must . oppose :Spaniards to Spaniards-41v to B.‘„ Is it iitppose4 that its. moderation can ;arrest the refugee* on the put of the C p rtes on the Portugueseirontier ?a. --A field of buds knows ' no frontiers, The Erigliela Cabins cannot forbid the unfortu-_, nate,,wlthout coentry, to, fight for themselves, :when they will tight for it ; cud without the inevitable movement of proecritted ' armies, there is something else which will draw diem into a pp, longed cowed, on the : soil of their country ; it is the eluteselutesye* '‘ , - we have seen pus. The Councils which hive govern e d „Spaiii ' are those, by the aid of which the conflag.ration is aprOdt , . _ • , • Here, the veil, falls r the chancei of the Ifiture present ;Main-',l selVes in all their truth. What shall wade then? Always the same answer. Allies of the Catnarills, we shall recommence the attempting, to give life to its rrgiroe of barherous blunds.; or allies of generous ideas, we shall toes ourselves in effort!, to pro- , duce a constitutional reeolution, destined thus to deceive ell Inir: efforts-t-to go beyond all our wishes. Finally, perhaps, thefeals; a middle party out of it exists; we shall endeavour to discover at, we shall know how to tempt it. The Ministry, in order to Sod else sooner; the fortunate calm, which 'flees from them, will do their' utmost, to secure at the same time the triumph of the Poittigneee Constitution sod Spartish absolutiiim. They will put in the Offler 1 the Day of our .soldiers, hatred of the Charters at the sources the Tagus, affection for the Charters at its trio utli They will e ceive that they can thus conciliate all interest s , except ir the n- timid &pity and the rights of humanity, Whicleihi.not calculetes' - ' xt Combating under the English atariduish, the Priringtieu in tise pay of the Army of the Faith, how can we manage ter repular without the bloWs.are confoundell, the Constitutional Spaniards enrolled in the English ranks? All this is mad—all this is im possiblo—and,yet it is, highly probeblt. ' ' In the mean time, will England confine her victory to Portugal, end will she be disposed to do so ? If she neither ran nor will, What will happen? Cod knows! One thing alone it is easy to foresee, and that is, that another hand than that of Prance will fix the destiny of the people of the Peninsula, and after all that bite. mead of late years, we ought really to felicitate them an account of this! But we, ourselves! the honour of our'eourstry ! Minis ters of the King, what have you done with it? • . Whether we quit the 'Peninsula or remain there, our. glory is; equally compromised. If we adhere to the deeiralshe elliance,,of England, we deliver over Spain to her; we fly from her standards. if the war produces contacts, collisions innumerable, we Sian us the world on fire; and as Mr. Canning has declared in tlicHouse of Commons, Lurope may expect the most frightful results. Thus we have made of our policy an inextricable labyrinth,: a bloody chaos. The Ministry can no longer do anything for, the , salvation of Spain, or for the peace of France. We are at the mercy of fortune. She may dispose of us; she may throW us at the mercy of the breeze into Monarchies' or Liberty, into the old errors of the Holy Alliance or the vassalage of England.' Our position is so else, so complicated, so full of difficulties without end, of perils . without profit and without glory, : that there its wherewith to inspire all that is not French with much joy or much compassion. Hence, see horn we are spoken of at Westminster. All the speech of Mr. Canning, in what enrift , l'M us, may be reduced fu these terms:-.-" People are mistaken respecting the (welliesion of Spain by the French.' We have allowed them to penetrate into it, in order to let them entangle themselves in their blunders. We liaVe allowed them to make good their quarters there, because their strength, their wealth, their consideration , are exhausted .by this bleeding wound. She burns to quit her deplorable pout. But her Chiefs are so, deficient in ability that they are struggling. el the bloody talkie,' .Without power to extricate thenutelvat lima it. The day,'hOttititert will come when it will please ue to allow the French atanii.rils 'to withdraw. Fur to remain there iti , spite of us, would -he to draw down on their heads afforiod punishment." . .. Such is the position ' in which the Ministry have, placed. na,,in the judgment of the world. And yet these Juttettals reßock,ita ~ all simplicity, the superb accounts, in testimony of the imettl a deuce which the British Cabinet repose. in ours, and of the sincere alliance which unites the two Crowns i What States -1 men thine are who boast as of .4 triumph of the irony, of sh a ll ota'sasy menaces, of the threiguer—who bout of them aco, sure means of keeping up the public funds—who console them. wives with , the immcuse depression of the national. considerit;; Min, if they can avoid that of the funds I What an alliance is that, iii which one of the two coutracting parties acts in such a mintier, and holds such language ! To believe that there is in this molter for security, and guaranto of rept**, would be a strange error. It is, its those who provoke it, an additional blunder and wrong. Let us assure ouraelves that the King and . the Chambers will do themselves justice. The hour of public conscience taking vengeance will at !WI/tit come. There is a limit to the patience of the throne ; and where should we be, if, after having tormented our interior security, troubled the course of our pl'at'eful prosperity, lost in subversive squabbles years Which Providence gave us to draw front them wealth, power, sta. bility—our glory could even be shattered with impunity ! For tunately, glory is the loolv ark With the French. One alone of our Ministers ran alone contemplate with awn/ ; froid his works :we mean the Count tie Corbiere. Ile has given . a proof of possessing as much pad senses as the three Oppositions _ and all France. If he has for so long a time set only two masons to work at the triumphal arch, it is, undoubtedly because he judged that the war of 113519 was not terminated. The report is in general circulation that the order has been dis patched for the return to Franee of the troops whhh we have lone kept at Madrid, and of which . the number is nt.t large enough to maintain, whatever may happen, the tranquillity of a capital, ruled by the party which has atiOrded military aid to the Portit•. guese refugees. This order is not applicable to the trixies, we have at Barcelona and Cadiz; and the cause of this diflirence is obvious. (From the Journal dee Debars of Tuesday.) p ARIN , DEv. IB.—Ws said the Ministerial policy wed with so inischelcill, that it ended with recoiling upon the Continent the power of England, a lamentable fault, which malls that which cotild effet.t in the treaties of Vienna and NOS, a kind of counterpoise to the prejudices raised against France by thetie tree ties--.-a fault for which the Contiesental powers will tiev'er ce. l4 e hereafter to reproach that deplorable administration that ()isolates France. Without doubt, it would not be neceseary to lieteit to these powers in every thing which credit injUre the liberty or the honour of our country ; but it would be a rrplirks* fitly to think °timely's instil:iris' on the Continent. and to place Out. selves in such a situation that the instiko raid continental polity would have equal reason to complain of us. Let us triarcli neither behind Mr. Canning nor M. Metternich. We lobed if it were possible for us to remain with ets little, force in Spain, while England occupied the cuiriiiy arid Ilia ports of .Portugal with its hoops and its vessels'? Five thousand English have landed at Lisbon, Among theft trdopa are all the infantry regiments of the guard of George IV, and tile corps of OaValty) which anfitninrem the plan of a permanent occupation, and of little import:in, c could one foresee the fortuitous cate••uf . pa military movement in the event of civil war. Though peel* may lie very desirable, cannot one say, as Mr. Canning haw mitts that there are two positions when people are obliged so 'hove recourse to artna—namely, when national honour and puhlio are yompromieed." If we hail no troops in Spain, Au wiF oPtltt;°annyofimPmoretduigatael' by the but the prelewouultisti be iihnrh"hinstriek'lltilt", in the Peninsula enniphcates the question, anti ottnPita titS minds of all. This is the moment at which the efficiency of an arniy up pears to be dimini s h e d. Th e Prussians. say they, "ftaPY'vithtlitkia in Pranc e . Our frontiers fall into rithis ; but to-day let tit attand to Spain. it canna be denied that the movement of Portuguese refugees took : pi to . e wi t h t h e ar i:ol;n tiot , of , that party which our oasts catne d to triumph spa , s. 't fiCle maeses,-eo ungoveruabliftemid whi,.l, f o ll ow ti l e inipulees of those who direct them, without obeying iv] aut h o elty, hold the Engliah in horror: The Spanish Govt ,„„t ieot wife no regard for that nation; Atiti:Abe l .lwoen the '":ittlniwh Republics by Orgtt Britain, ia a fia*l, c ar,4l 141,kiitig wound in the bosom of,every Spaniard, whatever tv the class arid politics' to which lie heloup. while F.ttitiarul openly declares tie her ally, and. felicitates tia.in. h a ving done, conjointly with her, every thing which was, in our power to prevent the invasion of the Marquis tie Chaves,with what eye must we be looked at in Spaio?, If a war should arise, not lertween us and Engliol, bot between Spain and , poytugal,,aud if the English, the hitter to preserve the peace at the furetiqtif-POr tugal, should place garriunisim the frontiers of:Spiin, lit ii hat a mittlatitili would We fins) tairgelcet,`,, We are the Allies a r:utlrncl y but vie are *hi& the 'Mho* of